At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 prime crewmember Tim Kopra of NASA (right) took a hand at a game of ping-pong Dec. 9 as backup crewmember Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) looked on. Kopra, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos will launch Dec. 15 on their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 prime crewmember Tim Kopra of NASA (right) took a hand at a game of ping-pong Dec. 9 as backup crewmember Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) looked on. Kopra, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos will launch Dec. 15 on their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.